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other general : Firjl^ From being peculiarly 

 favoured in rent to fuch a degree, as 

 having land worth 12 J", per acre, for 

 3 J-. or 3 J-. 6 d. the very amount of 

 Tvhich, without hufbandr}", care, or atten- 

 tion, in a large farm and a long leafe, is a 

 fortune. The other circumftance, is the 

 largenefs of the farms, which rife to above 

 3000 acres of land : Great ftocks are rc- 

 quifite for the culture of fuch ; and in 

 whatever bufmefs they are employed, the 

 profit ought to be proportioned. Rich clays 

 are commonly in fmall farms, and the 

 farms necelTarily poor; and thefe collateral 

 circumftances are confounded by the vul- 

 gar with the inherent qualities of the foils, 

 than which there cannot be a greater 

 miftake. Accordingly, when exceptions 

 are found, they prove the truth of this re- 

 mark ; for, in the Hundreds of EfTex, where 

 the clay is in lar^ge farms, the farmers are 

 as rich, and richer 'than they are in Nor- 

 folk; and in Norfolk the little farmers are 

 as mere beggars as they are in the ftiffefl 

 clay. The general wealth or poverty of 

 occupiers, in cither cafe, does not therefore 

 arife from the foil, but the fize of the 



farms; 



